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Originally posted by WWJFKD
Hey Monts,
No one, that I know of, wants to sit there and eat crow, but you know what, there is plenty on the plate to be had.
I appreciated your impassioned plea and I have shared it in a local forum to my region where it will be seen by many more who do not frequent ATS. I hope you don't mind.
Before you (all) call me traitor and advise me to not let the door hit me in the butt on the way out (you don't like it here then leave crap) spare me I've heard it all. Know also that I served this country in its military, I've seen combat and I've earned my right to speak my mind, and I will.
Monts knocked it out of the park and I agree with his assertions, and if you are too cowardly or too unwilling to admit the err of your ways or too brainwashed or whatever your disconnect is that cant seem to wrap your head around this then you hold the answer to why he is correct right there in this fact alone.
American pride? When there is something to be proud of, not when an entire nation is so apathetic to its evils and corruptions against itself as well as its neighbors that another country has to beg you to wake from your trance. This is a shameful thing and I'd like to be able to "have words" with any "foreigner" who dared utter them to me, but what has been said that was not true?
Dig deep down inside of yourselves and ask yourself "truthfully" what said here has been an untruth and what do we now have to be proud of. To fall back on the sacrifices of countless men and women who have come before and sacrificed all so that we might one day awaken in a truly free land and then we somehow suppose that we can claim "pride" when all that they have sacrificed and toiled stands to be lost because of our inability to get over ourselves and reach down deep inside and awaken some of that warrior spirit in favor of Football games and American Idol. How dare you puff up your chest at this gentleman. He has spoken no lies here.
I'm ashamed that "we" have allowed it to go so far that our neighbors have to implore us to get off our butts and do something about it.
Yes a great many who have come before have helped lead us to where we are now but sometime - long ago - others tried to make a difference and it is their efforts which we must not allow to have been made in vain. So when do we turn this thing around and show that we have not forgotten what it once meant to be an AMERICAN? When do we earn the right to puff out our chests and rightfully claim American pride? When do we start making some sacrifices of our own to right the wrongs of so many generations before us?
When indeed.
(sigh) rant completed
Originally posted by MisterWho
reply to post by Monts
Very well written.I pretty much agree with you. I really don't understand the negativity coming from alot of the members. The same ones who say the government is hiding everything from us, actuallly starts to defend them when a thread like this starts. Keep up the good work. By the way ATS members.....I love this site, and your going to be hearing alot more from me. Hope eveyone has a good night! P.S. Please try and keep your spelling in check. It's hard to take people serious when the grammer is 3rd grade.
Originally posted by Monts
Here is a message to all Americans, and anyone else who cares to listen.
Dear Americans...
Have you lost your minds?
Is the huge conspiracy that is ruling over your lives not obvious? Have you ever wondered why most of the world hates the US and do things like fly planes into buildings?
If you answered no, let me point it out to you. And this is all FACT.
1. The US owns at least 20% of the world's economy. And this doesn't even include the Black Market, or the over-seas corporate operations and off-shore banking. That means that whatever the US does and whatever happens to the US affects EVERYONE. All these psychopathic corporations are not only robbing you americans when they throw the economy down the drain, but the entire world as well. Although America spends the most money on foreign aid, but in relation to the amount of money America has, it spends the least.
Originally posted by Emanuele_C
Thanks for posting this, OP. No matter if this argument was discussed before on ATS: important things NEED to be ALWAYS repeated.
If I can add something, well, I'm italian, I appreciate most sides of your Country but our mass-mediatic culture is, unfortunately, VERY USA-centric. Let me make a quick example: every time one looks a film or a TV series that involves an american and he/her is in trouble, the first thing that the actor says is: "Hey, I'm an American!!!" or "I'm a citizen of United States of America!!!". Like he/her is something like a super-human or a "god", with superior rights or superpowers. And believe me if I say that I hate this behaviour. I've never heard someone say "Hey, I'm Bolivian!!!!!" or "Hey, I'm ITALIAN!!!!" nor "Hey, I'm French" or "German". Probably it's only a fictional, filmic or cinematographic representation of US citizens but it's really annoying.
Ciao,
Emanuele
Originally posted by Monts
Here is a message to all Americans, and anyone else who cares to listen.
Dear Americans...
Have you lost your minds?
Is the huge conspiracy that is ruling over your lives not obvious? Have you ever wondered why most of the world hates the US and do things like fly planes into buildings?
If you answered no, let me point it out to you. And this is all FACT.
1. The US owns at least 20% of the world's economy. And this doesn't even include the Black Market, or the over-seas corporate operations and off-shore banking. That means that whatever the US does and whatever happens to the US affects EVERYONE. All these psychopathic corporations are not only robbing you americans when they throw the economy down the drain, but the entire world as well. Although America spends the most money on foreign aid, but in relation to the amount of money America has, it spends the least.
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